PS374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biopsychosocial Model, Biomedical Model, Cancer Screening
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Unhealthy behaviours: all a choice, failure of self-control, societal availability, media messages, cost, felt control, norms, treatment vs prevention. Applied social psychology: health promotion, prevention, behaviour change, stress, coping, social support. Prevention: healthy eating, exercise, sleep, avoiding toxins (alcohol, drugs, cigarettes) It was assumed that presenting them with information about smoking should lead to reductions in number of students who smoked. Information can be incorrect/misleading: health effects food etc, vaccines autism, gmos, training literacy, source authority, trustworthiness, conflicts of interest, certifications, ads, page links, etc. Changing health behaviour: the health belief model (hbm, general health values, susceptibility, perceived severity, treatment success perceptions, self-efficacy, barriers, benefits, cues to action. Attitudes: favorable or unfavorable evaluations of an attitude object, attitude object can be, a person, a group, an object, an event, an abstract concept, a behaviour. Why look at attitudes: we think that attitudes are important determinants of behaviour, know attitude predict behaviour, change attitude change behaviour.
